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be a bit ‘Parterre Garden’, but it was too ahead of its time. Anything
too rusty didn’t work here. If I opened it now, it would work,” he
says. On closing the store, he headed to Sydney where he studied at
the Whitehouse Institute of Design and worked under interior design
luminary Garth Barnett.
With that experience under his belt, he returned to Perth. While
style came naturally to him, he needed to upskill in bathroom, colour
and textiles product knowledge. So, he had stints at Rogerseller,
Aalto Colour and Mokum Textiles, plus worked with Perth interiors
doyenne Judith Barrett-Lennard. During that time, however, he ran
his interior consulting business on the side. “Then about four years
ago, I had enough work to do design full time,” he says. “It’s been a
long journey and a practical one, but I finally made it.”
Interiors come easily to Jeremy, as does the ability to edit personal
collections and talk with clients. The latter is possibly due to his
background in hospitality where relationships and service are king.
“It is about connecting and building up a trust, so you can create the
perfect space for them,” he explains.
However, he also feels responsible for educating his clients to
ensure the best design outcome, which ensures the optimum lifestyle
benefit of a new space. “Good design allows us to live the life we want
to lead. It is not about having the best sofa. It is about creating that
lovely space that works for a family or couple, and that is quite
idiosyncratic. It’s about telling the story of the people who live in the
space. And it’s about integrating things that are special to them, such
as Grandma’s painting – integrating their life with the new interior.”
Jeremy’s job of ‘part editor, part storyteller, part sleuth’ has given
him an enviable black book. “A lot of our job, particularly living in a
place as isolated as Perth, is sourcing product. Perth is amazing, though.
We have everything here – there is an agent for everything – we just
need to be a detective to find it. If you go to Melbourne and want
antiques, you will go to High Street, Armadale. Here, you have to
drive all over Perth and know where to go.”
However, you get the idea that this is what keeps Jeremy excited
about his design business. With clients in Perth, the South West and
the Perth Hills, and in Sydney and Singapore, he doesn’t want for
variet y. And new clients are taking him out of residential design and
into the commercial realm – a chocolate factory in Yallingup and wine
bar in Margaret River – and to Bali where he’s sorting the style of a villa.
While “creating a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful space for people”
is top of his list, Jeremy’s venture into furniture design is one that will
not only add to his product arsenal, but also give us a locally designed
product that’s able to morph and adapt through our interiors’
incarnations. Tomorrow’s antiques? They are certainly timeless, but
whether they gain that tag remains to be seen. I
The collection is priced from $300 for a side table to $3000 for a daybed
and will be launched in April at Empire Highgate (08) 9228 1022,
worldofempire.com. Jeremy Monaghan 0419 041 503.
“Good design allows us to live the
life we want to lead. It’s not about
the best sofa. It is about creating that
lovely space that works...”
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